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Geocentric Model
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Earth -centered universe
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Heliocentric model
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sun- sentured universe
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scientific Revolution
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a new way of thinking about the natural world
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cultural diffusion
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The spread of goods and ideas between cultures
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scientific method
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systematic approch to science
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Galileo Galilei
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punished for publishing heliocentric model

italian scientists

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issac newton

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scientists and mathmatician born in Lincolnshire

 

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causes of the scientific revolution
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Denial of rights

Economic Debt

Enligtenment ideas

impact of the french and english revolutions

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John locke
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believed for the people to have natural rights
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The enligtenmant
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an intellectual movement. enligtenment thinkers tried to apply reason and the scientific method to laws that shaped human actions
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Thomas hobbes
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social contract between people and government..

believed to have a social contract

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Natural rights
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life liberty and property

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social contract
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an agreement between people and there government
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jacobins
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a political club during the french revolution
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Estate general
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made up of three estates

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bourgeoisie
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division of social class in france
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creoles
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a language of haiti
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peninsulares
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higher offices in the government of the americans
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jose san martin
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marched acrooa andes river, lived in peru, colony of spain
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voltaire

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fought for the tolerance reason religious belief and freedom of speech
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montesquieu
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separating power

dividing power

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rousseau

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belived in human freedom
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salons
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social gatherings
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enligtened despot
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absolutism
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nationalism
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pride in ones country
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limited monarchy
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limiting the power of king
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napoleonic code
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french cival code
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congress of vienna
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in africa

an international conference that was called in order
to remake Europe after the downfall of Napoleon

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balance of power
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international ralations
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miguel hidalgo
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the heros of the individualsof mexico
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revolution
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Quick and dramatic change
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causes of french revolutions
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denial of rights

ecomomic debt

enligtenment ideas

impact of american and english revolution

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estates
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divisions of social classes in france
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louis XVI
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first came to the throne, he entrusted the management of the
finances of the kingdom to Turgot
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maximillion robespierre
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born at arras and admitted avicate in 1781
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natinal assembly
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lower house of bicameral

legislture in some countries

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reign of terror
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After the death of Louis XVI in 1793, the reign of terror began. The first victim
was Marie Antoinette.
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concordat

 

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was a reflection of an agreement between Napoleon Bonaparte
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napolians inpact on europe
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The Napoleonic Wars ended following Napoleon's final defeat at Waterloo
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simon bolivar
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located in chile . joined forces to defeat sp.army
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toussant de L'Ouverture
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located in haiti.

100.000 revoly

1st black colony to be independant

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capital
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the city or town that is the official seat of government in a country, state
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factories

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a building or group of buildings with facilities for the manufacture of goods.
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corporation
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an association of individuals, created by law or under authority of law, having a continuous existence independent of the existences of its members, and powers and liabilities distinct from those of its members.
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conservatism
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the disposition to preserve or restore what is established and traditional and to limit change.
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mass production
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production or manufacture of goods in large quantities, esp. by machinery
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socialism
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social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole.
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fredrich engels
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was a German social scientist
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utopians
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belief
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Giuseppe Garibaldi
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was an Italian military and
political leader. In his twenties, he joined the Carbonari Italian patriot ...
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realpolitik

Definition
A cross-platform tool for displaying, adjudicating and tracking games and variants.
Features downloads, manual, and forums.
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horace mann
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 is the largest national multiline insurance company serving America's
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Agrarian revolution
Definition
Until the 1960s historians believed that there had been an 18th-century revolution
in agriculture, similar to the revolution that occurred in industry.
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laissez-faire
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was a reaction against mercantilism
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urbanization
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is the physical growth of urban areas
into rural or natural land as a result of population in-migration
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social darwinism
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a theory that competition among all individuals, groups,
nations or ideas drives social evolution in human societies.
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capitalism
Definition
an economic system in which property is owned by private persons
and operated for profit [1] and where investments, distribution, income
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unions

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an organisation of workers who have banded
together to achieve common goals in key areas such as wages, hours
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proletariat
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endless quest to transform itself, capitalism has spawned a new working
class. The lighter, more efficient capitalism of the digital revolution.
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camillo di cavour
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The figure who forged the Kingdom
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junkers
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one of Germany's great aviation pioneers, entered the aviation
world later in life than many other people did. Born in 1859
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kaiser
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Aluminum is a leading producer of fabricated aluminum products for aerospace
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industrial revolution
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was a period in which fundamental
changes occurred in agriculture, textile and metal manufacture, transportation
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adam smith
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never married. He died in Edinburgh on July 19, 1790.
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liberalism
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domestic system
Definition
a popular system of cloth production in Europe. It was also
used in various other industries, including the manufacture of wrought iron
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entrepreneur
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is a person who has possession over a new company, enterprise,
or venture, and assumes significant accountability for the inherent risks
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karl marx
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is best known not as a philosopher but as a revolutionary
communist, whose works inspired the foundation of many communist
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communist manifesto
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giuseppe mazzini
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the founder (1831) of Young Italy
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otto von bismarck
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remains one of the most significant political figures of modern
Germany.
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factors or production
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labor, capital, and land.
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sepoy mutney
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harshly crushed by the british
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emilio aguinaldo
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independance leader
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open door policy
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concept of foreign affairs
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mattew perry
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born in whillamstown raised in ottawa
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causes of world war one
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nationalism and militarism
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militarisim
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belief of desire that a country should have a stronge military
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fourteen points
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were listed in a speech and delivered by the president
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tripple aliance
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brought together british unions
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allies
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individuals groups or nations that have joined together in an accoiontion
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armistic
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effective end of war
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vladimir lenin
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Russian founder of the Bolsheviks and leader of the Russian Revolution and first head of the USSR (1870-1924)
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great purge
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Between early 1935 and mid-1936 Stalin's agents carefully prepared for the great ''Trotskiite-Zinoviev Terrorist Center'' trial of August 19-24, 1936.
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kulaks
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Order from Lenin to communists in Penza, August 11, 1918, demanding that they publicly hang at least 100 kulaks and confiscate their grain, to set an example
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imperialism
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Imperialism is empire building. Expansion occurs when one state is more powerful than are the obstacles to expansion.
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 boers
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The Anglo Boer War Museum in Bloemfontein, South Africa
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opium war
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The First Opium War or the First Anglo-Chinese War was fought between the British East India Company and the Qing Dynasty in China from 1839 to 1842 with the aim of forcing China to import British opium. Background During the 19th century, trading in goods from China was extremely lucrative...
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boxer rebellion
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Boxer Rebellion have been confirmed to play Imagine Festival in Switzerland on August 30. ... The Boxer Rebellion return in 2008 with a new single and UK tour!
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meji restoration
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Yoshinobu agreed in principle in November 1867, but mistrustful Satsuma radicals seized the imperial palace in Kyoto on January 3, 1868, and proclaimed a restoration under the young Emperor Meiji.
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alliance system
Definition
The Alliance System from the end of the Franco - Prussian War (1871) to the Eve of the Great War (1914)
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trench warfare
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Although trenches were used in ancient and medieval warfare, in the American Civil War, and in the Russo-Japanese War (1904–5), ... trench mortars, hand grenades, poison gas, and tanks were used.
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monroe doctrine
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The Monroe Doctrine, in asserting unilateral U.S. protection over the entire Western Hemisphere, ... President Theodore Roosevelt added the Roosevelt Corollary to the Monroe Doctrine in 1904;
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triple entente
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This was finally achieved in the Anglo-Russian entente of 1907. That agreement created the international group opposing the Triple Alliance—France, Great Britain, and Russia had formed the Triple ...
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total war
Definition
Total war (not: totalitarian war) is a method of warfare where anything connected to one's enemy is attacked. The object of total war is to demoralize the enemy so that he surrenders.
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league of nations
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League of Nations, former international organization, established by the peace treaties that ended World War I. ... League of Nations: Bibliography - Bibliography
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joseph stalin
Definition
Permanently scarred from a childhood bout with smallpox and having a mildly deformed arm, Stalin always felt unfairly treated by life, and thus developed a strong, romanticized desire for greatness ...
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command economy
Definition
An economywhere supply and price are regulated by the government rather than market forces. Government planners decide which goods and services are...
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" white mans burden"

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 February 1899, British novelist and poet Rudyard Kipling wrote a poem entitled “The White Man’s Burden: The United States and The Philippine Islands.” In this poem, Kipling urged the U.S. to ...
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boar war
Definition
a war in which Great Britain fought against the Transvaal and Orange Free State, 1899–1902.
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gulgags
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A network of forced labor camps in the former Soviet Union.
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spheres of influence
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A territorial area over which political or economic influence is wielded by one nation.
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scramble of africa
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The Scramble for Africa began in 1881, when France moved into Tunis with Bismarck's encouragement. This came to be called the Scramble for Africa. There are many reasons why this occurred.
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archduke francis ferdinand
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Archduke Ferdinand was heir to the Austrian throne.
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treaty of versallies
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The Treaty of Versailles was the peace settlement signed after World War One had ended in 1918 and in the shadow of the Russian Revolution and other events in Russia. The treaty was signed at the vast ...
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roosevelt corollery
Definition
Theodore Roosevelt, The Roosevelt Corollary (1904) ... Roosevelt and later U.S. presidents cited the corollary to justify U.S. intervention in the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Nicaragua, Mexico and Haiti.
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central powers
Definition
This is the story of the Austro-Hungarian KuK Navy's contribution to the Central Powers' considerable effort in the region.
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propaganda
Definition
This technique tries to persuade everyone to join in and do the same thing. ... An important person or famous figure endorses a product.
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bolsheviks
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Articles by Avrich, Rosenberg, Koenker and other social historians on the Bolsheviks and the degeneration of the Russian revolution.
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totalitarianism
Definition
Total control of the country in the government's hands
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five year plan
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Stalin's First Five-Year Plan: Sowing the Seeds of Hardship" by Nick Lee, April 2000 Wiesyk, Marcin., "Joseph Stalin's Five Year Plan", http://members.aol.com/marcin23/5yearplan.html, 1999
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facism
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Fascism is an authoritarian political ideology (generally tied to a mass movement) that considers the individual subordinate to the interests of the state, party or society as a whole. Fascists seek to forge a type of national unity, usually based on (but not limited to) ethnic, cultural, racial...
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weimar republic
Definition
It was partly because of fear of Bavarian instability that Preuss wrote into the Weimar Constitution the now famous Article 48, which gave the president of the republic the right to govern by decree...
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nazism
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Nazism was somewhat outlawed which only lead to its becoming more popular among the young of Germany and Hitler's loyal SA, ... The New Nazism is a growing problem througout the world, ...
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appeasement
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Appeasement is a policy of accepting the imposed conditions of an aggressor in lieu of armed resistance, usually at the sacrifice of principles. Usually it means giving in to demands of an aggressor in order to avoid war. Since World War II, the term has gained a negative connotation in the Britis...
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battle of britian
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Battle of Britain is the name given to the strategic effort by the Luftwaffe during the Second World War to gain air superiority over Fighter Command. The name derives from an 18 June 1940 speech in the House of Commons by Prime Minister Winston Churchill, "The Battle...
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pearl harbor
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 was abed with a cold that early that Sunday afternoon, at the northside Chicago apartment where our family lived, when word spread via broadcast radio that the Japanese had attacked the great ...
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d-day
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On June 6, 1944, a date known ever since as D-Day, a mighty armada crossed a narrow strip of sea from England to Normandy, France, and cracked the Nazi grip on western Europe.
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dictatorship
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Nazi Germany under the leadership of Hitler soon became a dictatorship. A dictatorship requires one person and one party to be in control of a nation and a climate of fear - this was provided by ...
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de-colonization

 

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Violent warfare was a big event that led up to decolonization. ... The colonial system in Africa ended up hurting Africa when they wanted decolonization
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